Not worth the price!
Written: Mar 15 '02
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Pros: Humorous (not terribly funny), fast-paced, there is food.
Cons: Overpriced, not terribly funny, crappy "theater", food is awful and bland.
The Bottom Line: Avoid it at all costs. Expensive, not funny, food miserable.
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| gbrisson2000's Full Review: Tony N' Tina's Wedding |
My wife and I heard about Tony and Tina's wedding from my parents several years ago, and after their description, it sounded hysterically funny. Well, times have changed (and so has the cast, the plot, the theater...) and we thoroughly did not enjoy ourselves.
We went one Sunday afternoon with two other couples, each of us shelling out $50 a piece. When we got to the "theater" (St. Luke's Church in NYC), we had to wait on line...in the basement! We thought the "wedding" would actually be IN the church, but it wasn't! There was no explanation given (apart from the rather dumb sermon the priest gave) and we waited a good long while.
After being escorted to where the wedding would be, we all took our seats on folding chairs. On every other seat there was a badly wrinkled photocopied piece of paper with the lyrics to the song the audience was going to sing.
Now, I must say, the actors did do their parts well. But they really didn't have much material to go on. Suffice it to say that although they ad-libbed their way through the whole thing, the script and jokes were really lacking. We had to wait almost 20 minutes for the show to start, and the wedding was somewhat boring. The song during the wedding wasn't all that funny, and the priest's homily wasn't either.
After the wedding, we all walked down the street to the reception area. I thought the cast was going to really mingle with the crowd, but I was mistaken. In fact, the cast seemed to play favorites. If they talked to you in the beginning of the show, they were likely to talk to you throughout the entire evening. Nobody talked to me directly AT ALL, even though I really tried to look them all in the eye and catch their attention.
The reception was REALLY boring. When you first walk in, the band was playing REALLY fast music, and all the cast members practically ran in there and started dancing up a storm. I've NEVER been to a wedding where people dance to fast music in the beginning. Usually, DJ's and band's like to warm up the crowd with dinner music first, then some slow dances, and then lead into progressively faster and more modern music. This band was akin to "Disco USA" or something like that: Fast, furious, and breathless.
Before the dinner, the waiter guy walked around and threw bread on the table. Yes: He actually threw bread ON the table! It was good, but we were starving anyway, and wanted to get on with the meal.
The food was served "buffet style" (more like cafeteria style!) in a hasty and uncaring way. It was a handful of lukewarm meatless ziti with a "honeymoon salad" (lettuce alone - a rather lame joke for a lame salad) The bar *did* have drinks ($12.00 for a bottle of beer? Are they MAD?!?!) but the price of the drinks made it all but unusable. I grabbed a couple of pitiful $4.00 cokes for my wife and I, while our friends forked over their money for the expensive beers.
There were a couple fun incidents throughout the evening (Tina's father's girlfriend did a bit of a striptease, there were a few fights etc...) but it really wasn't worth it.
We all left the evening kindof shaking our heads, almost embarrassed for them all. The quote of the evening was "That was...uh...interesting..." We left it at that.
It's kindof a shame, too, because this seemed like such a good idea. They could have done a LOT more with it, and had a MUCH better script, and it would have been absolutely hysterical. Instead, you feel like almost dirty, that you've been ripped off, and you need a good bath.
Oh well. Go see "Cirque Du Soile" instead. We saw that a couple weeks later, and loved it.
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